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i2CAT, the research and innovation center applied to Internet and advanced digital technologies, will be also this year showing its last developments and technological potential at MWC. Fully aligned with top themes identified for this year MWC edition, especially IoT and 5G.

From the 16th to the 18th o September, the i2CAT Foundation will organize the first open data citizen hackathon in Barcelona. The hackathon will address challenges of several key themes relevant to the citizens, such as Health, Culture and City Services.

Artur Serra, Deputy Director of i2CAT and also vice-president of the European Network of Living Labs, has participated at the Open Innovation 2.0 conference last May 24th.

His speech “Opening the European innovation system to 500 million of citizens" exposed how Living Labs can create open innovation distributed systems where the citizens are empowered to learn and innovate by themselves.

I2CAT team in collaboration with SixSq released the first stable version of the VPN cloud networking service. The service has been implemented with the OpenNaaS- Cyclone Network Services Manager/ Orchestrator (CNSMO) and integrated as an application within the Nuvla appliance, which is a SixSq PaaS product. The service provides with VPN connectivity among the application deployed VMs in order to secure the connection among them despite being in distant DCs.